I Spent 30 Nights Hunting the Star that Broke the Universe

The narrator attempts to recreate Edwin Hubble's historic measurement of the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy using a small 4-inch telescope. By tracking the brightness of the Cepheid variable star M31-V1 over several weeks, the narrator demonstrates how these \"standard candles\" prove that Andromeda is a separate galaxy, expanding our understanding of the universe's scale.